Me: “I think people should be left free to receive communion in their hands or on their tounges, according to their own devotion and diocesan pastoral norms.” #CatholicTwitter: pic.twitter.com/djRlyIw0Ga
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
Well, it’s not baffling that one would use that language at all, and implying that it is shows a lack of charity, but if it helps we can call it a pastoral exception to the established diocesan practice of supported by the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
I don’t think either of us are disagreeing on this point. I do think, at this juncture, though, that it’d be fruitful for the conversation if we had sense from a historian about when communion on the tongue became the norm.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
Having spent the first two years of my ordained life there, communion on the hand is allowed elsewhere in the diocese of Rome, making what happens at St. Peter’s not so bafflingly a pastoral accommodation.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
That’s not how the Domus usually functions, Francis issues it to bring in people from all around the Diocese. It’s used pastorally, not privately.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
The indult is in effect in Italy, though, and seems to be applied within the Holy See itself, which is what we’re talking about. In your case, I’d apply the same standard, individual pastors shouldn’t presume to change things that the local bishops choose not too.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
Francis allowing reception on the hand at the morning mass at the Domus is evidence enough that he’d generally be ok with both, and it’s enough to say that the practice at St Peters is specific to the Basilica and not by specific papal prerogative, which I took you to be saying.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
I think we’re saying the same thing, but from different ends of the spectrum. I’ve never been in a church, other than St Peters, that mandated one form of reception of the other and in places like the US such a thing is against the practice mandated by the Bishops.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
3/3 I would also argue thatmore homilies and catechesis on the sacraments and specifically the Eucharist, are sorely needed, and might make that choice more intentional for individual Catholics. (It might also make what happens at St. Peter’s more understandable to all.)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
2/3 the pastor shouldn’t take it on himself to mandate one way or the other for his parish or individual parishioners.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
Sure, but a pastor should follow the norms laid forth by the Church as regards both reception in the hand and on the tongue. Namely, in a place like the US, where the bishops have made clear that the indult of 1969 means that both are acceptable, 1/2
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
I don’t think anyone’s making that claim. I don’t think, however, that you can make the opposite claim: “Benedict and/or Francis disfavor on-the-hand” under normal circumstances based on the practice at St. Peter’s.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
*on the tongue not younger... (autocorrect mistake)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
2/2 I also suspect that there are many who would respect that receiving on the tongue is some people’s piety, but that it is not their own. Thus, I’d say it’s fine to point out that it’s an option, but the practice at St. Peter’s shouldn’t be taken as normative.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
I think that your experience is at the heart of my objection Paul. An announcement should be made that communion at St Peters is only recieved on the younger to all gathered, and not just to the priests before in the sacristy, which is now the practice. 1/2
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 30, 2019
I don’t think we disagree on that point, but I’d hesitate to say that the particular circumstance of St Peters could be applied universally, and I think there’s reasonable evidence that Francis agrees.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
My experience of it is that it’s a particular pastoral accommodation for St Peters. If I recall correctly, Francis does allow communion on the hand at the Domus. It’s a (good) situational rule , not universally prescriptive, as I (may wrongly) be taking you to imply.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
It’s not Francis’ policy specifically, it was in play under B16 too, and those were the actual reasons given. No need for interpretation.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
It’s a real thing, they try to get their hands on consecrated hosts for their black masses.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
That is sadly true, especially in places like Italy where a particularly virulent form of Satanism is at play.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
It’s a practice at St. Peter’s meant to stop people from taking the host away as a souvenir, or worse. Those who pastor, catechize, & know their parishioners shouldn’t have that concern at home. It’s not “papal practice,” it’s just a pastoral accommodation to the circumstances.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
My resting heart rate is usually around 58 bpm. Tonight during #GamesOfThrones and the #BattleOfWinterfell it was about 90 bpm for most of the time. Thanks for that info #AppleWatch. pic.twitter.com/hHZsD4XqTU
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
Without #spoilers, #Endgame and the #BattleForWinterfell made for one emotionally draining, if satisfying, media watching weekend. #DontSpoilTheEndgame #DontSpoilGameOfThrones
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 29, 2019
I spent a lot of this semester studying #purgatory. I suspect that the great #theologian Balthasar would see the mirror room of #kusama as a neat artistic representation of it: “The soul sees itself only in [the Lord's] mirror. The one being purified doe… https://t.co/iHViIAML5f pic.twitter.com/ZST6KtL0c8
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 28, 2019
I’ve totally done that. Sprinkling, in addition the being a great sacramental sign, is also a good deal of fun.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 28, 2019
Glad you got to share that with your 13 year old! Must have been a blast!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 28, 2019
Having seen #EndGame I can confirm, as a theologian, that it is such a sublime experience that any spoilers would warrant purgation as a result of lack of charity towards others. #DontSpoilTheEndgame
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 28, 2019
In addition to this bit of good news, it’s also good to finally see that the leadership of an important office is no longer tied to clerical privilege. It’s a big moment in how we think about Church. https://t.co/uvauKxNWDn
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 28, 2019
Let me know when you’re in town, we’ll catch a game!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 26, 2019
I’m very seriously considering it, though I have a dinner I have to go to at 6 which might make it a stretch.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 26, 2019
Tickets are going for $18 I have half a mind to head down to the dome to be there for it...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 26, 2019
You know it was seen as a bad #NFLDraft19 pick for the #Giants when they’re trending up here in #canada. Right @EdKulesza? pic.twitter.com/SSpAo3os67
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 26, 2019
The #jesuits of the #UCA in #managua #nicaragua have bravely stood with the people of the country since #SOSNicaragua began. Please, of your charity, pray for them! #CatholicTwitter https://t.co/YSxpudOWkn
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 25, 2019
Hot take after watching the #Disney #Aladdin trailer, it is really just another #hitch sequel. pic.twitter.com/0GdC0UJBF9
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 25, 2019
Seems like a long time ago!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 25, 2019
To be clear, I don’t think this will happen. As a New Englander, though, I’m kinda hoping for it with all of the vigor of pioneers during manifest destiny. #BostonSlam https://t.co/WPajzUSmsN
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 25, 2019
A needed English translation of a messsage that many #American #Catholics need to hear. Thanks to @antoniospadaro and @civcatt for putting it in front of us. https://t.co/4dDii4WKpN
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 23, 2019
Congrats Marcellis, well done!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 23, 2019
Well that’s just silly. The @Bucks are a great #NBA team, and they could well beat the #Celtics but, right now? With @KyrieIrving, @jaytatum0, and @gordonhayward just starting to do the thing we’ve been waiting for all season? #becarefulwhatyouwishfor https://t.co/bzpBy1GJzy
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 23, 2019
How I feel when I see people already picking a fight with #PopeFrancis on #CatholicTwitter about the reform to the #apostolic #constitution that governs the #Roman #Curia that no one has even seen yet. pic.twitter.com/s4x6MpQJ4u
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 23, 2019
This is awesome. https://t.co/TpxRDyeVGT
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 22, 2019
#OTD in 1973, Pope Francis pronounced his final vows as a #Jesuit. Pictured is his signature on his final vows. (📷: @mrogerssj) pic.twitter.com/Wg4sUy3g9W
— Jesuit News (@jesuitnews) April 22, 2019
Au matin de Pâques, des ténèbres renaît la lumière...
— Cathédrale NotreDame (@notredameparis) April 21, 2019
Nous sommes tous engagés pour œuvrer à cette nouvelle naissance, à la renaissance de Notre-Dame de Paris pic.twitter.com/tgAaCRnlCJ
One of the great things on #CatholicTwitter this #Easter has been seeing how many people have come into the #Catholic #Church. Welcome, one and all! pic.twitter.com/W3tXREB0Md
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 21, 2019
Sounds like the controversy leading up to the 4th Lateran Council....
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Pray for the safety of this brave pastor! https://t.co/RHWnxOOx32
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Also... any reconstruction which destroys the vaults of the interior ceiling which likely saved the cathedral just seem to dishonor the medieval genius which likely saved it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
“In sin, he sees sons and daughters to be restored; in death, brothers and sisters to be reborn; in desolation, hearts to be revived.” #PopeFrancis at the #EasterVigil. Where does #Jesus meet you? #easter
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
#PopeFrancis: We were made for heaven, for life with the Lord. "In sin, he sees sons & daughters to be restored; in death, brothers & sisters to be reborn; in desolation, hearts to be revived." pic.twitter.com/210c8ax2mO
— Catholic News Service (@CatholicNewsSvc) April 20, 2019
During Easter Vigil homily #PopeFrancis quotes from American poet Emily Dickinson: “We never know how high we are. Till we are called to rise.”
— Christopher Lamb (@ctrlamb) April 20, 2019
AND where the 4th and Walnut epiphany happens in the movie should warm your Canadian heart as well...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Solid Sacramental Logic. pic.twitter.com/rQPhl0UQaZ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
These are the clear answers we need. 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/hf8ZB6kI8s
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
It really all is right there isn’t it? That’d be a great systematics book to write, but you’d have to include a chapter on the bees. (that can be the laudato si chapter)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Wait for it... wait for it.... #SixWordEaster @BeAJesuit
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
This appeared in my #Jesuit community this morning... best of both worlds? pic.twitter.com/Hy2hMaOmd7
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
“I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place!” From An Ancient #HolySaturday Homily. pic.twitter.com/hgRqLyu1r8
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
It’s because every #Jesuit who moves into a new house gets permission from the minister to buy whatever bowl they feel they need for their cereal, etc... those bowls are holy memorial of those who have gone before us. 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
I was on dish duty in our community here in Toronto last night.... we have at least 5 different types..
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Yeah I think that that idea goes back to the old pre-Pius XII reform of the Easter vigil, when it used to take place on Holy Saturday morning rather than in the evening, as it does now.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Hahaha seems about right!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
The friend I was talking to said the same thing, and mentioned that that was why he didn’t fast. Thank God there’s some wisdom in these rules to make reasonable pastoral exceptions for things like that.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
That’s intriguing, because that would have been right after the reform. 🤷🏻♂️
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
I was talking with a diabetic friend today who mentioned the same thing. Of course the Church makes exceptions for those cases, but I know so many good people who do their best to still honor it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
I didn’t either! Apparently one of the older guys in my community remembers that for him, growing up, the rule was noon on Saturday because they celebrated the vigil in the morning.. he apparently still abides by that rule...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
@dcosacchi at breakfast on #HolySaturday 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/azAQ6ryj9n
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
So right now would be fair game @JanellePeters? Intriguing, that’s a new version I’ve yet to hear.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
Settle a debate for my #Jesuit community... I hold the breaking of the #fast of #Lent occurs only AFTER the #Easter Vigil in the evening and NOT at noon according to the pre- Pius XII reform which moved the vigile from #HolySaturday morning.. This is serious stuff people.... 😉🤣 pic.twitter.com/bvkGHTHBd7
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 20, 2019
The #Baroque #Artist Guido Reni was famous for creating relatable, empathetic, images of #theological realities. This image of the #crucified #Christ is a good reminder of who and how #God chose to be for us In the person of #Jesus this #goodfriday. https://t.co/HeSMC8xEuz pic.twitter.com/qpwI2QX7aA
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 19, 2019
Please join us @CardinalAmbro @DPCDSBSchools @archtoronto in extending our prayers for Jean Vanier who has entered palliative care
— Ambrozic Chaplaincy (@chaplaincyambro) April 19, 2019
Jean Vanier est entré en soins palliatifs https://t.co/Py0js1Zi0e
From @antoniospadaro: The president of the #European #Bishops in Civiltà Cattolica says that #Bannon and #Dugin are the priests of populism that evoke a false pseudo-religious and pseudo-mystical realty that deny the center of theology. #EU #europe https://t.co/lvDJkRlGUa
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 19, 2019
Ah yes... 9 years of wasting time in an echo chamber... 🤣🤣 #MyTwitterAnniversary pic.twitter.com/xNLm1svENk
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 19, 2019
I love the idea that at least one of them had such ridiculous boots
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 18, 2019
The #artist Tintoretto angled the #perspective of this painting of the washing of the feet on #holythursday towards the people in the #Catholic #church it was originally intended for, and then put #jesus in the foreground. That is, after all, what these … https://t.co/tIR3GsV93W pic.twitter.com/GIT2hN3ObX
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 18, 2019
By me, @Pontifex kicks off #HolyThursday w an appeal for priests to imitate Jesus' closeness to the crowds that followed him: "We anoint by dirtying our hands in touching the wounds, the sins & the worries of the people. We anoint by perfuming our hands in touching their faith” https://t.co/gitrw96DmR
— Elise Harris (@eharris_it) April 18, 2019
There are some priests who are architects, I know a couple. They do some great liturgical design because they ALSO have a sense of how a space should function practically.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 17, 2019
BROTHER PRIESTS - I know that some of you believe that telling a joke during a sermon is in poor taste. However, a beautiful Baroque tradition insists that you tell one during your Easter sermon. The laughter of the people was called the "risus paschalis" (Easter laughter).
— Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand (@FrHilderbrand) April 17, 2019
I feel like it’s sacrilege to say, and definitely it is a betrayal of gothic architecture, but there is something beautiful about the light steaming in through the holes in the ceiling.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 17, 2019
A well deserved honor for Earle! https://t.co/z3tLlo64HY
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 17, 2019
When you’re trying to eat healthily and they announce that both a @ChickfilA and an @EatalyIT will be opening in your neighborhood in #Toronto by the end of the year. #struggle pic.twitter.com/L9nlKyXRrL
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 17, 2019
There is a tradition that #calvary, where #jesus was crucified was actually over the #tomb of #Adam, and that the blood of #christ, soaking the soil, reached down to the first man’s earthly remains. If you go to #jerusalem today to the #church of the hol… https://t.co/qLZ212I7GD pic.twitter.com/TMICVqBSwl
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 17, 2019
The fact that there are visible, tangible, sacramental signs damaged by the fire may be the reason why it can process it, and might even cause some to ask why this place is important for them.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 16, 2019
Dawn in Paris. #NotreDame is still standing. Hurt yet magnificent. pic.twitter.com/7oPUXPKX0H
— Agnes Poirier (@AgnesCPoirier) April 16, 2019
The chaplain of the French fire department went into Note Dame to save the Blessed Sacrament and the Crown of Thorns relic. https://t.co/AKQtkxNpfx
— Ines San Martin (@inesanma) April 16, 2019
Ave Maria pic.twitter.com/lb6Y5XV05a
— Ignacio Gil (@Inaki_Gil) April 15, 2019
Fair enough, the palms for clergy in St Peter’s square are also so absurdly elaborate that no one would complain... though there are usually questions to be asked about the rest of the liturgy. 😉
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 15, 2019
Nope. The palms are enough...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 15, 2019
When, despite your best efforts to use your #French... everyone in #Montreal responds to you in #English. #itsthatbad pic.twitter.com/a6O6E7V5FW
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 14, 2019
The Basilica of Notre-Dame in #Montréal #quebec #canda. #catholic #church #placestopray https://t.co/e2YVJyAfJM pic.twitter.com/xN2vSiIKt9
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 14, 2019
I love the #quiet of an empty #church early in the morning. Something about the #stillness and the #silence in a vast space reminds me of the depths of #God. (This is the #Jesuit church in #montreal #quebec #canada) #placestopray https://t.co/OblelGr0cO pic.twitter.com/0DtE95njwR
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 13, 2019
That feeling when the moderator at an #academic conference does a bad job with time limits right before lunch and the session runs well over. #phdlife #AcademicTwitter #academia pic.twitter.com/AUCOxtatG1
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 13, 2019
At the #catholic #oratory of #stjoseph where thousands have come to pray for healing by the tomb of #saint brother André. #placestopray #populardevotion https://t.co/inGmy5uqW0 pic.twitter.com/wqMeSnBWb1
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 12, 2019
I’d like to remind #CatholicTwitter that the rest of the world isn’t really all of that concerned about #PopeBenedict’s essay, and that #Francis is still #pope. You may now return to your regularly scheduled freak out. pic.twitter.com/Akkn8aJXlQ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 12, 2019
I knew you’d appreciate that @MtKeppel
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 11, 2019
That’s precisely the point @ziiig I was going to bed when I noticed it! 🤷🏻♂️🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 11, 2019
Anyone else ever notice that the hymn for Wednesday #Catholic night #prayer has the line: “#Jesus, may our hearts be burning
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 11, 2019
With more fervent love for you,” and it was written by Savonarola, a #florentine #Dominican burned at the steak for #heresy? Just me? Too in the nose? pic.twitter.com/N7GBgugVyI
Finishing the #citations for a paper on #purgatory is, itself, an experience of purgatory... #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #catholic #theology pic.twitter.com/hiLDPMR17Q
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 10, 2019
This is why the world still needs #philosophers & #theologians... This isn't a photo of a #BlackHole, that'd be impossible since light cannot escape a black hole, this is MERELY a photo of the proximate effects of a black hole.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 10, 2019
(Still a cool pic though) https://t.co/YfAL09GSBn
Ten championship trophies on the field at #FenwayPark. That’s a lot of hardware. #GoSox
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 9, 2019
That was quick...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 9, 2019
*zooms in* pic.twitter.com/YcOSz8fBYZ
— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) April 8, 2019
"The Christian does not take things for himself: he is given them as gifts.” -Hans Ur von Balthasar #Catholic#theology
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 8, 2019
trads are like “the novus ordo leads to liturgical abuses that could never happen in the tlm” and I’m like “bud, you can’t even hear the priest up there during the tlm, he could be talking about hot pockets or wrestlemania and you’d have no idea” and they’re all like “🤯”
— Tommy Tighe (@theghissilent) April 8, 2019
#PopeFrancis tells young people, "The only time it is legitimate to look down on someone is when you are there to help them get up again." pic.twitter.com/axu3IbxqUj
— Catholic News Service (@CatholicNewsSvc) April 7, 2019
How I feel... even when my @RedSox lose in a walk off.. pic.twitter.com/tEaNEiYoxd
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 7, 2019
Brendan Workman, who is a hell of a reliever, is currently the real #ace of the Boston @RedSox. Let that sink in.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 7, 2019
*read Mulieres Dignitatem* listens to “how far I’ll go” from Moana... joins the resistance. ✊🏻
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 7, 2019
If it’s Hellfire from the hunchback of Notre Dame, while writing about eschatology... I’ll allow it. (Stopping here... though there are so many possibilities)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 6, 2019
If its “let it go” while writing a paper on Kenosis.... I’ll allow it
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 6, 2019
Awesome to see you all there with him!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 6, 2019
Fitton Field has a capacity of 3,000....still double the capacity of what they apparently need in Pawtucket.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 6, 2019
Go get em!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 5, 2019
Well done @jehyve_floyd! https://t.co/kp5Mg8psCL
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 5, 2019
I’ll do it! (Though I suspect those are Russian Orthodox Icons)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 5, 2019
When I was a kid in the #Catholic Charistmatic Renewal I was overwhelmed by the power of the #Eucharist in Adoration. Now, older and a #priest, I am overwhelmed by the vulnerability that #Jesus shows in coming to us in such ordinary things. pic.twitter.com/66SsFobiXC
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 5, 2019
I don’t disagree, but it likely won’t happen until Cardinal Wuerl ages out of the conclave, and who knows what could happen in those two years?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 4, 2019
*Cardinalatial... there’s no autocorrect for that one.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 4, 2019
I really like #WiltonGregory, & hope that he will be a #Cardinal. However, shouldn’t the pattern of not necessarily giving red hats to historically Cardinatial sees set by #PopeFrancis give pause to pundits who presume that Gregory’s elevation to the college is a near certainty?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 4, 2019
Abp. Wilton Gregory: "DC is home to the poor and the powerful--neither of which realizes they're both."" (at press conference in DC) #WiltonGregory
— Heidi Schlumpf (@HeidiSchlumpf) April 4, 2019
Someone: oh, so you’re a “revert”
— Melissa Johnson (@mlynnjohnson72) April 4, 2019
Me: I dislike that term. I identify as a lapsed apostate
Someone: ...what
Me: a prevert, if you will
Someone: stop talking to me
Agreed. It was Gregory the great’s dialogues, so I’ll count it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 4, 2019
When you’re #allergic to mold, and every time that you open a really old book that you need for your research, you sneeze. Welcome to the real work place hazards of #Academia. #AcademicTwitter #PhD pic.twitter.com/tSaIJ1rNwP
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 4, 2019
Argentine soldiers who fought in Malvinas met with Pope Francis in Feb and asked him to help them repatriate an image of Our Lady of Lujan that is in a military chapel in England. Though he didn't say anything, the suggestion allegedly made him tear up.https://t.co/ofPAI3rDh4 pic.twitter.com/Rxviqjm9a5
— Ines San Martin (@inesanma) April 3, 2019
This is definitely worth your time. Sin, Faith, Metanoia and Redemption are all in this story. More signs of the Kingdom. https://t.co/h49zKY7U52
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 3, 2019
Today’s #Catholic #saint, #Francis of Paola, fought the #devil in hand to hand combat, made friends with a trout and a lamb both of which he resurrected from the dead when people cooked them, and lived a perpetual #lent. Only in the south of #Italy could such a man exist. pic.twitter.com/yjrPd6DQ5Y
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 2, 2019
A worthwhile take on #ChristusVivit, as always, from @antoniospadaro. https://t.co/uUZHmXeuQk
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 2, 2019
The new exhortation from #PopeFrancis is a letter to young people. #Christusvivit #ChristLives https://t.co/hRE8rh0ZOR
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 2, 2019
“If #God is #love, #charity should know no limit, for God cannot be confined.” ~#Saint Leo the Great. #lent #wisdom #Catholic (#almsgiving of St Roch, by Carracci) pic.twitter.com/MtfjY2QTIE
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 2, 2019
Precisely! pic.twitter.com/4tkOlMiG2k
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 1, 2019
Some say that the tradition of #AprilFoolDay comes from the change of the New Year from April 1 to January in the #Gregorian calendar, with the help of the #Jesuits in 1582. It’s fun to think that the #pope would let such a young #Catholic order mess with the calendar like that. pic.twitter.com/1kw66oSggr
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 1, 2019
So she doesn’t really say “yes,” she makes a statement of who she is. (Her response is in the passive voice, optative mood in the Greek) That’s kind of more baller, because in light of the immaculate conception, the incarnation is the fullest expression of her self.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) April 1, 2019
The Prodigal Son constitutes one of the peaks of spirituality and literature of all time. What would our culture, art and civilization be without this revelation of God as a Father so full of mercy? It never fails to move us and every time we hear it, suggests ever new meanings.
— Ratzinger Quotes (@RatzingerQuotes) March 31, 2019
